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September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.

Births

214 – Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
384 – Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
1349 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1585 – Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
1708 – Paul Egede, Danish missionary (d. 1789)
1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1754 – William Bligh, British naval officer and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)
1769 – Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Ukrainian poet (d. 1838)
1774 – Salomon Mayer Rothschild, patriarch of the Rothschild banking family (d. 1855)
1822 – Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1826 – Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1907)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English writer (d. 1903)
1842 – Elliott Coues, American army surgeon, historian and writer (d. 1899)
1852 – John Henry Poynting, British physicist (d. 1914)
1855 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-German writer (d. 1927)
1873 – Max Reinhardt, movie and theatre director and actor (d. 1943)
1878 – Sergio Osmena, President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1887 – Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
1890 – Harland D. Sanders, American inventor of KFC (d. 1980)
1893 – Esther Cleveland, only person to be born in the White House (d. 1980)
1894 – Arthur Freed, American songwriter and movie producer (d. 1973)
1894 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1898 – Styles Bridges, 63rd Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1961)
1902 – Fred Tootell, American athlete (d. 1964)
1903 – Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1911 – John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, former President of Italy (d. 2012)
1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German physicist
1922 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist
1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist (d. 2008)
1923 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
1931 – Margaret Tyzack, British actress (d. 2011)
1934 – Nicholas Liverpool, President of Dominica
1941 – Otis Redding, American musician (d. 1967)
1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)
1946 – Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
1949 – John Curry, British figure skater
1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
1951 – Alexander Downer, Australian politician
1952 – David A. Stewart, British musician (Eurythmics)
1956 – Anatoly Artsebarsky, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut
1959 – Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
1959 – Eric Serra, French composer
1960 – Hugh Grant, British actor
1960 – Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey coach
1961 – Matjaz Kek, Slovenian football coach
1962 – Liza Marklund, Swedish writer
1963 – Chris Coons, American politician
1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer
1964 – John Hughes, Scottish football manager
1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
1967 – Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
1967 – Hana Andronikova, Czech writer (d. 2011)
1968 – Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
1968 – Julia Sawalha, British actress
1969 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model
1971 – Eric Stonestreet, American actor
1972 – Goran Visnjic, Croatian actor
1974 – Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer
1976 – Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
1977 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
1982 – Graham Onions, English cricketer
1983 – Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
1984 – Andrey Silnov, Russian athlete
1984 – Brad Guzan, American footballer
1985 – Luka Modric, Croatian footballer
1987 – Alex Song, Cameroonian footballer
1987 – Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player
1993 – Ryohei Kato, Japanese gymnast

Deaths

701 – Pope Sergius I
1000 – Olaf I of Norway
1087 – King William I of England (b. 1028)
1398 – King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1438 – King Edward of Portugal (b. 1391)
1487 – Chenghua, Chinese Emperor (b. 1447)
1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 – King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland (b. 1523)
1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
1834 – James Weddell, British sailor (b. 1787)
1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (b. 1821)
1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods maker (b. 1850)
1939 – U Ottama, Burmese national hero
1941 – Hans Spemann, German doctor and zoologist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1869)
1960 – Jussi Bjorling, Swedish opera singer (b. 1911)
1976 – Mao Zedong, political leader (People's Republic of China) (b. 1893)
1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1978 – Jack Warner, American Hollywood studio founder (b. 1892)
1980 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 – Robert Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
1983 – Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1901)
1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (b. 1893)
1990 – Samuel K. Doe, Liberian military officer and President of Liberia (b. 1951)
1990 – Doc Cramer, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
1993 – Helen O'Connell, singer (b. 1920)
1997 – Burgess Meredith, actor (b. 1907)
1999 – Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1946)
2000 – Surya Ramanand Sharma
2000 – Veerasamy Ringadoo, first President of Mauritius (b. 1920)
2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader (b. 1953)
2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908)
2010 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (b. 1935)

Events

337 – Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as Roman Emperor.
1000 – Battle of Swold – After it, King Olaf I of Norway commits suicide.
1379 – Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III
1513 – In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland is defeated.
1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1775 – A hurricane strikes Newfoundland, killing 4,000 people.
1776 – The Continental Congress officially names their new country the United States.
1791 – Washington, DC is named after 1st President of the United States George Washington.
1806 – A hurricane kills 457 people in Dominica.
1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 – The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol ends with the withdrawal of Russian troops.
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1870 – Redmond, Washington is founded.
1886 – The Berne Convention is finalized.
1892 – Edward Barnard discovers Jupiter's moon Amalthea.
1893 – A birth occurs in the White House for the only time in its history to date. First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland gives birth to a girl, Esther.
1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1922 – Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. The Non-Turkic population flees.
1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, founds the CHP.
1924 – The Hanapepe takes place in Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 – The National Broadcasting Company formed.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1944 – World War II: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia.
1945 – Japan formally surrenders to China.
1947 – "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" – a moth is lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
1948 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created, declared by Kim Il-Sung.
1954 – Marilyn Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario.
1954 – An earthquake in Algeria kills 1,250 people.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 – Sandy Koufax throws a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs.
1965 – Hurricane Betsy hits New Orleans.
1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
1969 – Canada's Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal Government.
1976 – Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong dies aged 82.
1983 – Aaron Pryor beats Alexis Arguello by knockout in round ten of a rematch of their 1982 controversial fight, dubbed The Battle of The Champions.
1990 – The Sri Lankan Army kills 184 Tamil civilians in the Batticaloa massacre.
1990 – Liberian leader Samuel K. Doe is overthrown and killed in a coup.
1991 – Tajikistan becomes independent from the Soviet Union.
1991 – Nirvana release their hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which becomes an iconic tune for a whole generation.
1999 – The Sega Dreamcast is released in the United States
2000 – In the wake of inflation, Ecuador replaces its currency, the Sucre with the US dollar.
2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
2004 – A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing several people.
2004 – Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Colic will be replaced.
2009 – 09/09/09: The date, when written, has 3 nines in it. As well as that, September has nine letters, and so does Wednesday, the day of the week it falls on.
2011 – The 2011 Rugby World Cup begins in New Zealand.
2012 – The 2012 Summer Paralympics in London end.

Observances

Admission Day (California)
Independence Day (Tajikistan)
National Day of North Korea

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-* [[1855]] {{ndash}} [[Houston Stewart Chamberlain]], British-German [[author]] (d. [[1927]])
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-* [[1873]] {{ndash}} [[Max Reinhardt]], film and theatre [[director]] and [[actor]] (d. [[1943]])
+* [[1873]] {{ndash}} [[Max Reinhardt]], movie and theatre [[director]] and [[actor]] (d. [[1943]])
 * [[1878]] {{ndash}} [[Sergio Osmena]], [[President]] of the [[Philippines]] (d. [[1961]])
 * [[1887]] {{ndash}} [[Alf Landon]], American politician (d. [[1987]])